Two chapters in one day? WHAT A DEAL! :D Actually, it's going to hopefully be three, because this is only half of what I wanted it to be, I decided not to write an 11 or 12 page chapter, so this is part one of 'Girls Day' two part chapter. I hope everyone enjoys, and hopefully you'll expect another chapter later today too!
So a little warning, The rooms of the house may not be based on the movie, but I remembered the Wii Game for Coraline and based it off of that memory, excluding the extra bedroom. And also, Mr. Bobo is speaking in his accent, so when reading his speech, just imagine HIM talking that way and it'll be a little more understandable.
Read and Review please!
~Uzumaki Ayame...
P.S.~ Do not own any Coraline based characters, All characters except Wybie Lovatt and his grandmother belong to Neil Gaimann, Only characters I own are made up characters by me, such examples are Brunette and Maxwell. Thanks and enjoy!
Chapter Six: Girl's Day In…
It was finally Saturday morning.
Coraline woke up to an alarm clock; it woke her up at six. Of course, it wasn't because she accidentally set it thinking today was a school day, she set it because she wanted to have the longest Saturday ever, rather than sleep in and only have a half day.
She also felt awkward from yesterday; she definitely wasn't in the mood to see Wybourne today. On the last day of school before the weekend, she and Wybourne weren't acting so friendly, probably from the night before when Coraline seemed to give Wybourne the cold shoulder. They gave small glances to each other, said their hello's and goodbyes, and even hung out a little after school when they walked to her house together, but there was nothing but silence between them, until Coraline entered her house, and watched through her bedroom window as he drove off home, without a word or an attempt to talk to her…
So she wanted a long day without hanging out with Wybourne, and forgetting about everything. But she wanted someone around to distract her from her own personal issues, so she needed to think. She did have other friends besides Wybourne and Brunette, but they were the closest, and the others she hasn't even bothered talking to lately… well, they haven't bothered with her either so why should she care?
Coraline stretched in her bed, scratching under her arms, then her messy blue hair. It had actually started getting longer, she wondered if she should either let it grow or just ask her mom to cut it for her. She may not be new to Oregon anymore, but she definitely still didn't trust some of the weird people of the shops and stores, and going to a barber was not an option.
She decided she'd call Brunette, and knowing her, she was already awake waiting for her call.
Coraline giggled at this thought, and simply unbuttoned her pajama top to let some air in. She was getting hot in her room, and her arms were getting itchy.
Coraline was in the kitchen at the table. There was a little TV there, high in the corner of the kitchen for when her family had no time to sit down and just watch it calmly.
Mr. Jones was grabbing bowls, pouring random cereals into each, then tossing one at Coraline, then Mrs. Jones, then he placed one at an empty spot on the table for himself. Coraline stared down at hers, and stuck out her tongue when she noticed it was some crappy looking plain cereal. She looked over at her mother's, who was typing away at her laptop and didn't seem to notice, and she realized that their bowls were definitely mixed up.
Coraline quickly swapped the Bland Flakes with the Frosted one's, just in time for Mr. Jones to sit himself down with his family and place the milk at his side "I'm surprised you're up so early, Coraline." He said with a tired smile, grabbing the milk carton before Coraline could snatch it. "You don't usually wake up this early unless it's either school or you have something up your sleeve." Coraline groaned as she watched the man take forever to pour the stupid milk into the stupid bowl, then as soon as he set it down, she hurried to grab it, only for Coraline's mother to claim it first.
"I'm surprised myself, she's not entirely a morning person, either." Mrs. Jones made a small smirk as she poured into her bowl with one hand and typed away at the laptop with the other. When she finally stopped, Coraline grabbed the carton, only to feel how light it was, and peek inside and realize it was empty.
Coraline let out a loud dramatic groan "Takes one to know one, Mom! You stole all the milk!"
Mrs. Jones chuckled "Stole? I didn't steal anything, Coraline, you were just too slow." She teased her daughter, and Coraline huffed and slumped into her chair.
Mr. Jones patted his girl's hair "There, there, sweetheart, I'll make you some eggs and bacon before I head out, how does that sound?"
Coraline nodded fast without hesitation as Mr. Jones drank whatever remained in his own bowl, and he jumped up from his seat, grabbing his empty bowl and Coraline's filled one. Right when he reached the kitchen sink, Mrs. Jones shut her laptop and started eating "We'll get some groceries later, matter of fact, Charlie, you can just head there right after your work."
"You don't need the car?" He turned his head curiously, before returning back to washing his own bowl. He poured the dry cereal from Coraline's bowl into the box, before washing that bowl too.
"Nah, you can just drop me off on your way to work, then after you grab the groceries just come by and pick me up…" She rolled her eyes as she finished her bowl "And do remember to pick me up this time, I don't enjoy sitting around for hours with no pay."
Coraline giggled at this comment, and Mr. Jones nodded nervously "S-Sorry dear, that incident won't happen again."
Coraline smiled at her parents, before she gasped "Wait! You both will be gone today?"
"Not so fast young lady." Coraline's mother stood to her feet, smirking at the blue girl "I know what your thinking, no, you don't get to stay home alone. Mr. Bobinsky and the nice ladies downstairs will visit you throughout the day."
Coraline banged her head on the kitchen table. A sign of defeat, but the fact that the old ladies probably couldn't walk so well up stairs, and the blue circus man rarely was ever out of his home, made Coraline feel more free.
"So keep a lookout for them, alright kiddo?" Mr. Jones messed with his girl's hair, then noticed that it had gotten longer "Hm, we may need to take you to a barber or something soon…" He smiled and patted her head once more before quickly pulling out the last two strips of bacon from the fridge, as well as two eggs to start on Coraline's breakfast at the stove.
Coraline threw her arms over her head to defend her hair, and her Dad laughed, and Mrs. Jones smiled, opening the kitchen door "Well, we'll do something about that. We'll see you later this afternoon, Coraline." With that, her mother left to start up the car. Mr. Jones flipped the pancake shaped eggs like a professional chef, before getting applause from Coraline, who was smiling happily. Mr. Jones did the same with the bacon, before turning off the stove and grabbing his things "Well fix yourself a plate, and I'll see you later sweetheart." With that, he followed his wife out the door, waving before closing the door behind him. Coraline stared at the door, before she hurried to the phone and called Brunette.
"Coraline!"
"Brunette, it's Cora—wait…how'd you—"
"Caller I.D.?"
"Aw, I wish I had that."
Coraline paused, trying to remember why she had called, before she spoke up "Oh yeah! Come over today to hang with me!"
"Will do! Nothing to do here, I'll be over in a bit? Or was there a specific time?"
"Nah, just come on over whenever you're ready."
Brunette laughed, that girly laugh, Coraline imagined Brunette flipping her hair behind her ear "Okay then, see you in a little! I'll be walking so look out for me!"
"No need, door will be unlocked!" And Coraline quickly hung up, knowing she definitely would be looking out for her.
She didn't even grab herself a plate; she snatched the two hot bacon strips from the still hot pan, and quickly dropped them onto the floor from burning herself. She frowned as she saw the broken bits on the floor, then hurriedly picked up what still remained and carried it to the sink, washing the bacon off. She devoured the now cool meat strips, before running out the kitchen and down the hall to the front door, where she unlocked it before running upstairs to start cleaning herself up and changing. She couldn't wait for Brunette to come over, it'd be fun...or at least, distracting.
Coraline had a large butterfly hairpin in her hair, keeping her long bangs from smacking her in the face, the butterfly hairpin matched her long sleeve shirt, which was a dark purple, followed by a tank top over the clothing, which was yellow and green striped.
She wore simple blue jeans, but a fancy gem stone belt, and she was wearing blue rain boots, just in case Brunette wanted to head out. Coraline waited by the door, looking out the window to see if she saw any person's walking towards the house in the distance, and as soon as she did, she waited until the actual picture came in view.
She saw long brown hair, and the girl was skipping, so she assumed immediately that it was Brunette.
Coraline smiled widely and opened the door, waving outside to signal her from the distance. She received a wave right back, and now watched a running girl head towards her house. With a smile, Coraline waited until finally Brunette had gotten there.
Brunette waved slightly, tired from the running, she was breathing heavily with her hands on her knee's to gain air into her lungs.
Coraline smiled, closing the door behind Brunette as she waited, and when Brunette looked as if she was done hyperventilating, Coraline cleared her throat "Thanks for coming, I know I never invited you over before so I thought it'd be a good idea today."
Brunette nodded tiredly, before her eyes widened with excitement, the silver's in her eyes flashed brightly "Thank YOU for inviting me, your place looks awesome!"
"I'll give you a tour, follow me." Coraline said, and Brunette nodded as the blue girl lead the brown girl throughout the house. Coraline showed her the kitchen, as well as the family room, which she knew Brunette already had seen. But she also showed her the dining room, the boiler room, and her father's study. Brunette was really interested in her father's study.
"What does your father study here?" Brunette asked as she wandered into the office, looking around. It was cleaner than the first time they had moved in. There used to be piles of newspapers, other pages and books, and trash everywhere from her dad's idea's that just didn't cut it for him, so he'd throw it in the trash only to miss constantly. Coraline knew her mom and her dad made gardening catalogs on plants, insects, and other garden like things, but that was all she knew…she also knew that they didn't like dirt much, but they both decided to keep working at what they did best until they thought of something better to start on.
She was never interested in what her father did in his office.
The desk with her father's old style computer was at the corner of the room, a nice looking rug of green and gold was at the center of the wood flooring, and a large window let in the sun to greet whoever was to step into said man's study.
Coraline finally answered with an "I dunno, stuff."
Brunette pouted to her "Well, if it's called the study, he needs to study right?"
"It can also be called an office, genius."
"My names not genius, silly!" Brunette giggled.
Coraline only stared at her for a moment, before ignoring what just happened and leading Brunette out the room.
She walked up the stairs quickly, making sure Brunette was following right behind, then she lead Brunette to the bathroom in the hall, as well as to her parents' bedroom, and showed her their personal bathroom.
Brunette seemed so amazed by everything, Coraline was wondering if this girl was some alien thingy coming into her home to understand the world of humans.
Brunette smiled and ended up leaping onto Coraline's parents' bed. At first, Coraline was shocked, a little worried that her parents would complain about the mess they made of the sheets, but then she couldn't help but jump right after, and the two girls were busy jumping up and down, laughing and screaming as if someone had attacked them with the people version of catnip.
Coraline was the first to calm down as she stopped jumping and sat at the edge of the bed, giggling and breathing heavily, and soon Brunette joined her, and the two girls smiled and laughed at each other, before Coraline stood to her feet, leading Brunette out the room.
Finally, Coraline showed Brunette her own room, and Brunette was immediately awestruck "Wh-Whoa… this is…!"
"Fantastonishing?" Coraline helped her friend with a proud grin.
"Awesomeriffic!" Brunette giggled and clapped.
"Thanks!" Coraline smiled "I was inspired; actually, my Other Mother had my room look just like this in the Other World, before she turned all creepy." Coraline wiggled her fingers as a symbol for 'creepy'. "That woman may have been a horrible witch, but she had really good taste."
"Looks like it…" Brunette smiled curiously as her eyes continued to dart all over the room.
Coraline was really proud of herself, breathing on her painted blue nails and rubbing them against her shirt as if to clean them off "Well, now that all this is done with, we can definitely head out. I'll show you the garden." As the two of them walked out and down the steps, Coraline started to explain how her parents made a garden party and invited her neighbors over to help her with the gardening.
When they headed out, Coraline opened the garden gates, and showed Brunette all the red, pink, and yellow tulips, all the daisies and sunflowers, and even how they had beet's growing at the center of the garden because of her neighbor, Mr. Bobinsky. Brunette laughed at this, though she scratched the back of her neck, wondering about 'this Bobskii' guy Coraline was talking about, and Coraline immediately finished the garden tour to introduce her to him.
As Coraline lead the way, Brunette smiled happily and looked back to the garden, suddenly gasping as she looked passed it towards what looked like a boy standing there.
Brunette bit her lip, and turned away, trying to ignore whoever that creep was.
"Pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mizzes Boontette." The tall, blue skinned man bowed. The three of them stood right outside his door, before the girls were invited in, and Brunette frowned and corrected "Mr. Bobskii, it's Brunette."
"Bobskii? What is zis sort of sing you speak of? That is the thing wis thee… er… whatchumacallit, the snow?"
Coraline was giggling up a storm as the two argued whose name was what.
Mr. Bobinsky wasn't as fat as he used to, in fact, he seemed to have lost a ton of weight to his gut. His home was a lot cleaner, and Coraline suddenly remembered the circus mice she thought were cool.
"Mr. Bobinsky?" Coraline asked quietly, interrupting the feud.
The blue man paused and looked at her, before Coraline spoke up "What about the circus mice? Can you show us them?"
Bobinsky shook his head and frowned "No time soon, I'm so sorry Caroline, but eh… recent death has been hard, hard on little bubooshka's. Oldest mouse is-eh dead."
Brunette frowned, and Coraline the same "Oh…" Brunette nodded "I'm so sorry, Mr. Bobinsky." Coraline nodded as well, but smiled when Brunette had gotten the blue man's name right.
Bobinsky nodded as well "It is hard, but soon enough, we will march on and start again!" He held his arm up triumphantly, before pounding his fist onto his chest. Coraline smiled and nodded fast, a little embarrassed "Yeah, I know you can do it!"
The two girls went to the door, since Bobinsky mentioned that he was busy, and the man quickly leaped and opened it for them "You ah take care Caroline and Boomtet! Stay out of zeh trouble!" and with a bow, the girls left and the door was slammed behind them.
Brunette smiled at Coraline, before letting out a groan as if she had held her breath in for an hour, and waving a hand in front of her face "WOO-WEE, did he reek of cheese and fart?"
Coraline giggled and nodded fast "Haha, yeah! His daily diet is cheese and beets, and since he works out all the time, I bet the food sweats right outta him and on his skin!" The girls giggled and smiled at each other, before Coraline waved her hand "Okay, now to Ms. Spink and Ms. Forcible. They live downstairs underneath me. They used to be actresses in the theater, you know."
Brunette's smile widened as she followed the blue haired girl, once more looking out in the distance. As she went down the steps, she glared slightly at the boy that seemed a lot closer to them than before. This time she could see, she knew who it was…
"It's always nice to have company over, dearie, please have a seat. You AND your friend." Ms. Spink smiled at them as she walked across the floor with the help of her walker. Coraline and Brunette looked at each other, and Coraline shook her head "N-No Misses Spink, we aren't gonna stay long. We're going to go do stuff today."
The pink haired woman turned her head slightly, before continuing to walk to her chair by a small coffee table, finally getting a seat "Oh really? Are you sure you don't want any tea?"
Brunette smiled "Tea?" She walked to the couch and sat herself down, and Coraline sadly followed and sat beside her. She also noticed that the three dogs were no where to be found, and she frowned and looked at the shelves of stuffed angel dogs "M-Misses Spink…? Where are your dogs…?"
"Oh, sleeping in their bedroom, dearie." Ms. Spink smiled sweetly, leaning back as if relieved to rest herself "Miriam! We have guests! Introduce yourself and make some tea, please!"
"Oh pish posh, calm yourself, old woman."
Another older woman appeared, with large breasts, and she wore only a bustier and leggings, like some ballerina in the making. Coraline gulped, and Brunette giggled.
Ms. Spink gasped "Oh my word! These are children!"
Ms. Forcible rolled her eyes as she held her glasses to her face, looking at the two girls "Oh, well then they have seen it already." The old woman walked slowly to the kitchen, mumbling a 'Hello Caroline, hello other lady', then she started to boil some water on the stove, then went to the taffy cupboard and grabbed a bowl, bringing it to the coffee table and setting it in front of Brunette.
Brunette looked at Coraline, and Coraline simply shook her head, before Brunette shook her head to the older women as well "N-No thanks, I don't eat sweets."
The pot of water hissed and whistled, and Forcible scurried over to the kitchen, calling behind her "You DON'T know what you are MISSING, darling!"
"What do you two young ladies plan on doing today, hm?" Ms. Spink asked curiously with a small smile "It is my duty to watch over you Caroline, so I must indeed know." Coraline smiled right back "We're gonna hang out at my house, explore, adventure, and be free!" Coraline lifted her arms as if spreading her wings, causing Brunette to giggle, and Ms. Spink to laugh lightly "Ah, to be young again."
"Here is your ladies' Jasmine tea's…" Ms. Forcible announced and carried the tray to the table, setting one cup in front of Coraline and Brunette, while also adding "Way more soothing than, oolong or whatever that crap is that April enjoys drinking…"
Ms. Spink ignored her, and immediately took a purple hat from underneath the table "I can read your tea leaves if you would like, you two."
Brunette once more looked at Coraline as she sipped the beverage, not sure what to do. Coraline smiled and nodded, and Brunette sipped only enough until she could see the leaves at the bottom. She held the cup to Ms. Spink, who took it gently and started to swish it around.
Coraline was done and waiting for her turn, when she looked over at a puzzled pink haired woman.
"What does it say?" Brunette smiled a little. Ms. Spink looked up at the girl, then down at the leaves, still confused "I… um… I'm sorry, but I honestly do not know. Miriam!"
The large breasted woman waltzed in, before she stood beside her shorter friend and snatched the tea cup, peering into it with one hand and holding her glasses to her eyes with the other. No pictures, no words, nothing, they were jumbled up tea leaves. Miriam shrugged her shoulders "I cannot tell, it seems that we have a mystery woman…"
Brunette blinked, and made a nervous laugh "Ah-Are you serious?"
"Maybe the tea is broken." Coraline commented.
Brunette immediately nodded, and Ms. Spink and Forcible laughed together.
The pink haired lady held her hand out for Coraline's, and she handed it to her, watching the woman move the cup around to mix the leaves.
"Ah, this is much better… well…sort of."
Coraline leaned closer "What does it say?"
Ms. Spink looked at Coraline "Well, there are two pictures it seems. A question mark seems to be sitting on top of… a heart?"
Ms. Forcible snatched it up and looked "No, you have it all wrong; it's a worm coming out of an apple. Good grades in school are coming your way!"
"No no no." Ms. Spink snatched the cup back and peered into it "The heart symbolizes love, and that someone is searching for the real you, Caroline… in hopes to gain your affection."
Coraline arched a brow to her, and received a glance from Brunette, who started making light kissing noises.
"The question mark represents… it comes in two forms, curiousness and danger."
Coraline and Brunette jumped "Danger?" The gasped in unison.
Ms. Spink nodded, as Ms. Forcible rolled her eyes and took the taffy and Brunette's cup to the kitchen.
The pink haired woman continued, as Brunette leaned closer, at the edge of her seat "This seems to look as if it is troubling… standing right out of the heart, dearie, do not trust those whom are not as they ah—"
Brunette slid out her seat, and grasped the woman's wrist, causing Ms. Spink to drop the cup and break it.
Coraline hurried to help Brunette up, then rushed around to help Ms. Spink "Are you two alright?"
Ms. Spink nodded, then looked to Brunette "What happened?"
"I slipped out of my seat…" Brunette shrugged, embarrassment was showing on her cheeks as they turned pink "I'm so sorry…"
"Oh it's quite alright, dearie." Ms. Spink smiled, and Coraline helped her clean it up as they placed the broken bits in the trash in the kitchen. Coraline took this moment as a time to leave "We should head out, I have one more place to show you, Brunette."
"Oh-Okay!" Brunette quickly nodded and jumped up, rushing after Coraline.
"Thanks for the tea! We'll see you later!" Coraline waved as she opened the door, and the two elderly women waved back, saying their goodbyes before Ms. Forcible joined Ms. Spink at the coffee table.
Coraline shut the door behind her, and smiled at Brunette "That was close."
"Sorry about your tea, Coraline." Brunette frowned. Coraline shrugged it off and smiled "No worries, it was just tea." Though Coraline was wondering about the heart in her tea leaves. Someone loved her? What was that all about?
Coraline lead the girl through the now early afternoon fog. Brunette described it as eerie, but then Coraline said it was perfect weather for banana slug hunting. Brunette giggled at the random comment, and Coraline laughed nervously, before realizing she thought about Wybourne again. She wondered if he had called her house or anything while she was out.
She continued to walk on though, down to the path that leads to the secret well, and passed the tree's that had on and off days, and to the colorful mushroom circle.
Brunette looked at the circle, and she smiled at Coraline curiously "What's this place?"
"It's the well, where me and Wybie first got rid of the button key." Coraline said gently as she signaled for Brunette to help her lift up the cover for the well. When they managed to do this, Brunette looked inside to see that it was filled up to the partial top. Coraline sat down on a rock near by, where Brunette joined her, and the two of them smiled towards each other.
"This is a fun day." Brunette said with a light giggle.
Coraline nodded quietly, lowering her gaze to her blue boots "Yeah, and the day's just getting started."
Brunette looked back towards the well; before she looked up and down the path that they had just came from, to see the shadowy figure once again. Brunette's happy expression dropped, and she bit her lower lip.